In the book "Of Mice and Men" the author John Steinbeck really plays up the image of loneliness because of being different. In this picture we see a girl sitting on a dock by herself shows kind of how Crooks and Curley's wife had to feel.
Personal Response:
In this chapter Lennie gets a talk from Crooks about how lonely he is because he has a different color of skin. Lennie of course doesn't understand what he is talking about so Crooks decided to scare him by saying that George is not coming back. Lennie gets scared and starts threatening Crooks, he gets scared and says that he was just supposing. This kind of proves how lonely he is. Steinbeck really shows how racist people are. Crooks had to even sleep in a different room (actually the stables) from the other ranchers. In the book Steinbeck really talks about racism while in the movie version the director chose to down play the scene where Crooks talks about racism. Instead there were a lot of scenes where Curley's wife tries to talk to the workers because Curley doesn't give her enough attention. I think they up played the scenes with Curley’s wife because that’s what audiences enjoy watching, while if the whole movie was about racism people would shy away from it. Not many people want to be talked about racism because it is a hard subject to talk about. I think that both in the book and the movie loneliness because of being different is still the major theme.
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